User talk:HWV258

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Hi HWV258. Welcome to WP. Someone will come along soon and paste in the standard greeting and provide basic information. Tony (talk) 00:26, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] Handel

Nice work, my friend. I've touched up one of the tables. Have you seen Wikipedia:Featured_list_criteria? And you might consider reviewing a few Featured list candidates if you can manage the time: they could do with a strong contributor, and it's a task that can be broken into little bits (each nomination). An objection can be lodged merely on the basis of failing to meet one of the criteria; full reviews are welcome, but not necessary to make an impact on the culture there. Tony (talk) 10:53, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Violin Sonata

The definition of a classical Violin sonata is for violin and piano, so there is no need to put the piano in the name as per Violin Sonata No. X (Beethoven). Although I will put the piano back into the article. Centy – reply• contribs – 02:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Welcome!

Welcome!

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[edit] took long enuff!

Finally, your welcome. They should have a bot to do it automatically and promptly. The MOS hierarchy issue crashed and burned because it brought out every little ego that's attached to the sub-pages, and that doesn't want to hear of MOS central prevailing over them by default when there's an inconsistency. Dumb. Tony (talk) 08:07, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] User page filling out

Nice, HW. Now perhaps a pic from the Commons—surely there are one or two really good ones of Handel, or of Handelian themes. Tony (talk) 06:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

By "Commons", I meant "WikiMedia Commons" [1], a huge repository of copy-left images and other media. You're free to use them on your user page or anywhere else. Here's the Handel category. Tony (talk) 04:56, 20 March 2008 (UTC)


I rather like these, for example:

The Handel House at his city of birth, Halle
The Handel House at his city of birth, Halle


And this nice performance:

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba

[edit] dash it

Dashes as interrupters: many styleguides say it should be an unspaced em dash—but that's thought old-fashioned by some folk, who prefer a spaced en dash – MOS allows both, but hints that spaced em dashes — like this — are not the norm. My preference—you know—is for the unspaced em.

Me, I hate those spaced em dashes, coz they're just too likely to hang at the end of a line — besides, they're so wide that they're visually intrusive.

What do you think? You might wish to have your say here, where Noetica is trying to garner consensus for proscribing the spaced em dash – leaving just the standard two options.

PS Here's the stark difference:

  • diddley squat - yadda yadda [hyphen – not allowed]
  • diddley squat – yadda yadda [kewl]
  • diddley squat—yadda yadda [yumm]
  • diddley squat — yadda yadda [yucko]

Tony (talk) 10:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Handel Categories

I usually wait until there's a few articles before I create a new category, but I suppose that's just an editorial preference of mine. I just didn't want to leave the article with a red link (basicallly uncategorized), so I put it in a category that existed. Its hard for editors and bots to find articles that are not categorized (and not many really check the stub category). If you end up eventually creating the psalm settings category at a later date, then you can recategorize it then.DavidRF (talk) 03:29, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Hercules

Is it possible to mention the Greek legend from which the story is drawn? TONY (talk) 12:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)